[Users] Centos 6.4 support

[Narayan Desai]

I've built an ubuntu PPA of a bunch of the system management-related
packages from OFED 3.5. It is currently only for 12.04, but i can build for
newer distributions if it would be useful.

The ppa is here:
https://launchpad.net/~narayan-desai/+archive/infiniband

Comments, questions, etc, are welcome.
 -nld


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Rupert Dance <rsdance at soft-forge.com>wrote:

> Ubuntu has been working with the OFA Interoperability WG and our
> collaboration has led to RDMA support within their distribution. To my
> knowledge they have the equivalent of OFED 1.4.1 support right now. OFED
> 3.5.1 is rpm based and so does not support the Debian package system used
> by Ubuntu.****
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> I have ”cc” my main contact from Ubuntu who may be able to provide more
> details and the current status.****
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> Thanks****
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>
> Rupert****
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> *From:* users-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:
> users-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] *On Behalf Of *Andrei Mikhailovsky
> *Sent:* Friday, May 24, 2013 10:20 AM
> *To:* Peter Kjellström
> *Cc:* users at lists.openfabrics.org
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Users] Centos 6.4 support****
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> I will give it a go now and come back.
>
> P.S. I am an unfortunate owner of HP blade switch with QLogic mezzanine
> cards which are so crappy, it's unreal!
>
> I've tried to get them working so many different ways on many linux
> distros and it seems that they only work on CentOS/RHEL. That's is why I
> have to stick with CentOS for the time being as I am an Ubuntu guy.
>
> I've just tried Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04 with infiniband PPA from
> Roland Dreier and I just can't get this card to work. I've got Mellanox
> cards working perfectly well with the same set of tools. Perhaps it's
> another post which I will make shortly.
>
> By the way, is OFED 3.5.1 compatible with Ubuntu? If so, what version has
> it been tested with?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrei****
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> *From: *"Peter Kjellström" <cap at nsc.liu.se>
> *To: *users at lists.openfabrics.org
> *Sent: *Friday, 24 May, 2013 3:00:47 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Users] Centos 6.4 support
>
> On Friday 24 May 2013 07:42:49 Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
> > I posted about this a month or two ago, I had to downgrade kernel &
> > kernel-devel-2.6.32.279.22.1 to get it to compile, didn't have time to
> > look at patching, still don't :( .
>
> You are aware that that kernel has a trivial local root hole, right?
>
> CentOS-6.4 has a quite recent integrated ib-stack so most people won't
> have to
> install OFED though...
>
> /Peter
>
> > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Andrei Mikhailovsky <andrei at arhont.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > Hello guys,
> > >
> > > I've recently upgraded several of my servers from CentOS 6.3 to 6.4 and
> > > tried to install OFED 3.5. There were issues with compiling compat-rdma
> > > package. I was wondering if there are any patches or release candidates
> > > which work with CentOS 6.4? Can't seems to find much info on the net
> > > regarding it.
> > >
> > > Many thanks
> > >
> > > Andrei
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